NEW MEXICO GAS COMPANY — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-03-10

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Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety AdministrationOfficial agency material

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Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, MCKINLEY COUNTY County, NM. Reported cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 4907 NATURAL GAS released, $10,385 reported property damage. Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. Records may be supplemented or corrected and do not represent final agency causal findings.

Report number: 20160030.

Operator ID: 6141.

Reported incident date: 3/10/2016 10:38.

Location detail: MP 3.56 G/GML

Cause detail: EXCAVATION DAMAGE BY THIRD PARTY

Cause detail: NOTIFICATION ISSUE

Cause detail: NO NOTIFICATION MADE TO THE ONE-CALL CENTER/811

Cause detail: A ROAD GRADER SCRAPED THE PIPELINE WITH THE BLADE AND GOUGED A HOLE APPROXIMATELY 6" X 9". GRADER OPERATOR DID NOT CALL THE NM ONE-CALL NOTIFICATION CENTER FOR A LOCATE REQUEST.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EXCAVATION DAMAGE — THIRD PARTY EXCAVATION DAMAGE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $26,820 reported total cost, $20,538.376 in 1984 dollars, $33,902.398 in current-year dollars.

PHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings.

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